“I don’t really care about horse meat. The key point is that if it’s produced in China, it probably has rat meat,” said another [Weibo user] (link in Chinese). …

Still another was even more skeptical. “In Europe, profiteers just added a bit of horse meat to beef. But in China, you don’t even know if what you’re eating is actually meat,” he said (link in Chinese).

There you have it — a little bit of perspective on food regulation and safety. It’s not perfect — not by a long shot — in Europe or the U.S. But it could be way, way worse.